Rep. Maxwell Frost sharply criticizes Musk and Ramaswamy’s DOGE

Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost had harsh words for President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to be headed by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, calling the pair “two billionaires masquerading as government officials” in a December 5 interview. . appearance on.

According to , Frost’s comments on Joy Reid’s MSNBC show “The Reid Out” stated that highlighted the proven fact that DOGE will not be an official department, despite its name.

“Let’s be honest about DOGE and this whole thing, it’s a joke,” Frost also noted that DOGE is “not an actual department of this government.”

Frost continued: “I am in favor of making our government more efficient, but we need to take a closer look at this proposal. The proposal from these two guys is that to make government more efficient, we need to fire a bunch of people and take away a lot of funding. And this lack of nuance and actual oversight of how we can make government work better shows me firsthand that they’re not approaching it properly and they’re not approaching it from the right place.”

Many have publicly questioned Musk’s ability to steer DOGE and even whether he must have access to confidential government information. In fact, in September, after a post by Musk on X that appeared to advocate the assassination of Vice President Kamala Harris or President Joe Biden, Musk stated that posed a serious threat to national security.

Later, Musk assured on his Twitter/X, which he owns: “Starlink was not allowed to turn on satellite beams in Crimea at that time because it would be a violation of US sanctions against Russia!”

According to Richard Blumenthal, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law, Musk, who has large defense contracts through his various business entities, rconstitutes a serious threat to national security. Musk is the CEO and founding father of SpaceX, CEO of Tesla, owner of X and co-founder of OpenAI.

“I believe it’s beyond dangerous. “I believe that Musk and SpaceX taking this position poses a serious threat to our national security,” Blumenthal said during a November hearing on U.S. technology corporations and their ties to China.

Blumenthal continued: “These extensive economic ties and China’s willingness to exploit them is a dangerous combination, a real risk to this country.” Blumenthal also added that Musk and Tesla “are not the only ones in Big Tech who are facing this situation.”